Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Image and Reality of the Israel–Palestine Conflict" in English language version.
Although Israel does 'recognize Palestinian water rights in the West Bank', these rights do not include the 'ownership of the water', which will be the subject to the permanent status negotiations. Indeed, Israel already claims the legal title to most of the West Bank water on the basis of 'historic usage'. That is, having stolen Palestinian water for nearly three decades, Israelis now proclaim it is theirs.
Finkelstein's tract [as] greeted with extravagant praise by William Quandt, Noam Chomsky, and other veterans of the anti-Israel lecture circuit
